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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused CNN host Erin Burnett of having “Trump Drangement Syndrome” after the network put one of his new cooking show’s budget-friendly recipes to the test, and tallied a price triple the amount.
Kennedy recently launched The Real Food Show, a YouTube cooking series promoting nutritious meals he says can cost less than $5 per serving and remain “affordable for every family.” The show is part of his healthy eating campaign.
On Wednesday’s CNN journalist Tom Foreman tested that claim for Burnett on OutFront, recreating Kennedy’s wild Alaskan salmon cakes and side salad, which the show priced at $19.64 for four people. Foreman’s grocery bill, however, came to $70.54.
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After the report aired, Kennedy hit back on X, trashing the host and accusing her of having “abandoned both common sense and basic arithmetic.”
“CNN wants us to incorporate the full package price of every ingredient, regardless of what is used in the recipe. If you put a squirt of ketchup on your burger, would you be surprised if the restaurant charged you for the whole bottle?” Kennedy wrote.
Kennedy argued his show uses “standard recipe costing,” saying “we count what the recipe actually uses,” while “the rest” of each purchased ingredient “stays in the kitchen.”
CNN’s report focused instead on what a family would actually have to spend at the checkout to make the meal from scratch, being unable to purchase the items on a servings scale.
“When we started buying ingredients used in the show, even going for the lowest prices at a big, competitive chain, the cost heated up fast,” Foreman said.
Foremon explained his findings: “This was the cheapest frozen wild caught sockeye salmon we could find, the closest to what they are using. They price theirs at $8.99, the cheapest we could find – even with the deal from the store – was more than $24. Now the greens mix, that was about the same cost. So were the eggs on a per egg basis. But that’s the trick here because they’re only pricing that one egg out of the carton.”
“And that gets worse with other things,” he continued. “For example, this red onion, they say they only spent $0.08 on this because that’s how much they used. Getting the whole onion cost us more than a dollar. And look at this, this is the avocado mayonnaise, they priced this at $0.40 because they were only using a couple of tablespoons to buy. The whole thing cost us more than $11.”
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“They’re only pricing parts of it,” Foreman added, “and grocery stores don’t sell things that way.”
After tasting the meal, Foreman said it was healthy and enjoyable but added: “I do not see having made this, how you can walk into a grocery store with $20 and come out with everything you need for this, making that part of the claim from any consumers, I think, very hard to swallow.”
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